• humblebun@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      I’m kinda with you on this. People are complex and for the most of their time they behave okaish.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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      17 days ago

      No. Most people drive cars, despite the fact that they know cars are destroying all life on earth. Most people are capable of rationalising their behaviour to remove culpability for the consequences of their actions. Most people are evil, in the same kind of banal way that most people in Nazi Germany accepted the new way of doing things and didn’t fight back, because they felt they had too much to lose from resisting.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

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        17 days ago

        Lmao, way to deflect. I didn’t say most ppl aren’t evil (not even addressing that your definition of evil isn’t even universally agreed upon), but I did say most ppl are actually pretty empathetic to the plight of others and thus decent in that regard.